Conflict of the two worlds -- The provisional government -- Brest-Litovsk -- Unofficial allied agents -- The north Russian intervention -- Collapse in the north -- The Siberian intervention -- The allies in Siberia -- Russia and the peace conference (I) -- Russia and the peace conference (II) -- Germany and the founding of the Comintern -- 1920-the year of transition -- The approach to normal relations -- Western reaction to the Soviet bid -- Rapallo -- Britain, the Soviet target -- Stalin as a statesman -- Stalin and China -- The rise of Hitler -- The struggle against Hitler, and the Purges -- The nonaggression pact -- Before Germany struck -- Russia and the west as allies -- Russia and the war in Asia -- Keeping a world intact